Adrian E. Trinidad, 23, appeared in court accused of playing a role in his 2-month-old son's severe brain injury.
According to a probable cause statement prosecutors read in court, officers were sent to St. Vincent Hospital on Dec. 29 for a 2-month-old baby with a brain bleed. Trinidad had been babysitting the boy Dec. 27.
In the initial interview with officers Dec. 29, Trinidad said he couldn't remember much about what happened while he was babysitting. He said the baby had seemed "fussy and intermittently lethargic, seeming sleepier than usual."
Trinidad said he and the baby's mother took their son to the hospital on a Friday night and were sent home with gas drops. They went to the hospital again Dec. 28 after his mother saw his eyes were twitching.
However, Trinidad spoke with officers again Jan. 25 and said that after he fed and burped the baby, he had left the room to change his clothes and he put the baby on two pillows on the couch. He said the baby fell onto the floor. Trinidad picked him up but didn't support the boy's head, which fell back, according to prosecutors.
He shook the baby, asking if he was OK, and said he didn't remember how many times he shook him, prosecutors say. Trinidad told officers that the baby's head "did go back and forth" and remembers that his "eyes went up and went side to side."
He said he didn't realize at the time that his shaking caused the baby's injuries, according to prosecutors.
The baby was airlifted to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and is recovering, but it is not known if there are any long-term disabilities or mental harm, prosecutors said.
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